"Master, Mr. Qu just now said, "I invite you to Nanxiangyuan for tea and fight with cocks!" As soon as Mr. Liu walked into the study and sat down, a guard came in to report.

"Fighting cock...fighting chickens with legs..." Mr. Liu twitched his face and said to himself, but after thinking for a while, he quickly stood up and ordered: "Go to the chicken coop to help me catch a chicken with better looks, and follow me to Nanxiangyuan..."

Two moments later, Mr. Liu took his servant to a carriage with a bamboo cage. The cage contained a big rooster with wings that were almost bald all over. After many twists and turns, he came to a garden house with a plaque of Nanxiang Garden hanging on the lintel.

When Mr. Liu arrived, an familiar official also came by. After getting off the bus, both of them looked at the chicken coop carried by the other servants.

"Tsk tsk, Lord Liu, your chicken is very unique. Today I am going to go shirtless!"

Mr. Liu also looked at the big cock in the other party's cage and was stunned for a while and said, "Grandman's chicken is also very distinctive! The neck hair is quite novel!"

"Yes, yes, haha, please come inside!"

"Please~"

The two of them were haha, and they took their servants and chicken cages to a house in Nanxiang Garden. At this time, five or six people had gathered in it. Although they were all wearing casual clothes, they were all officials from the three provinces and six ministries. These people often gathered together to fight cocks, dogs, drink tea and throw pots in their spare time, so they were very familiar with each other. After entering the door and greeting, looking at the chicken cages placed in the center, Mr. Liu found that all the roosters had bare necks, but only he was the most powerful, with only his head, and there were a few ridges with ridges on their wings and buttocks. They curled up in a ball of trembling in the cage. I don’t know if it was painful or frozen.

"Mr. Liu has many roosters in his house, why did he pick a hairless one today?"

"Yes, yes, you are purely despising us!"

"Maybe Lord Liu wants to treat me to a chicken today?"

A group of people gathered around Mr. Liu's chicken cage and talked excitedly.

But Mr. Liu pointed to the other roosters in the cock cage and said, "Why are all the roosters hairless on their necks?"

"My chicken neck fur was pulled down by a little girl to make a chicken feather shuttlecock!" A young official in his thirties said with a smile.

“So too!”

"So too!"

Several officials spoke in unison.

"What is a chicken-feather shuttlecock?" Mr. Liu asked inexplicably.

"I heard it was a playful thing invented by Qinghehou. Its gameplay is similar to Cuju, but it is extremely light. It can be used repeatedly to throw and kick it repeatedly, which can be exercised and has a lot of fun!" An official explained with a smile.

"This shuttlecock first emerged in the Women's College. In recent days, people have started to make plays in many places. The little girl went home to make shuttlecocks. When I was not paying attention, I pulled out the rooster feathers that I had been raising for three years..."

"So that's it! I finally understand..." As the group of people talked, Mr. Liu finally understood.

"Sir Liu, please tell me why your chicken was pulled so cleanly. It's at least more than a dozen shuttlecocks?" An official asked quipped.

"Oh, I can't describe it..." Mr. Liu said the situation that the chicken at home had bald necks so that he saw his chicken being seduced to the academy and was plundered.

"It's so miserable~" an official shook his head.

"It's a terrible sight, but the man from Qinghe Hou pulled it away, Lord Liu should admit it!" Another sighed.

"I guess the whole rooster in Xianyang will suffer. When I go home today, I put the chicken cage in the bedroom to take care of myself!"

This incident is similar to what these officials speculated. A small chicken-feather shuttlecock has made the whole of Xianyang uneasy in recent days. As the novel toys such as chicken-feather shuttlecock spread from the Women's College, almost every household's rooster has suffered disaster. The family with many children has not enough roosters, so they can only go to the poultry market to find them.

This situation is exactly the same as the braised dishes at the time. In the emperor's harem, a shuttlecock kicking frenzy caused by the chicken feather shuttlecock brought back by several little princesses. From concubines to palace maids, people arranged to collect the beautiful soft hair on the rooster's neck every day. Not only did they kick the shuttlecock better, but they were more beautiful than which shuttlecock.

So countless palace servants collected beautiful chicken feathers in Xianyang all day long, and pulled them into the palace. The backyard was filled with chicken feathers. Some people even didn't even spare the birds fed by the palace. The hairs on the necks of a group of mountain pheasants in the garden were pulled out in the middle of the night.

Of course, the rooster in Chen Xu's mansion did not escape this misfortune. He was chased by a group of servants and finally pressed to the ground and pulled out his neck. He made chicken feather shuttlecocks for Xing'er Yu Ji and a group of little maids in the mansion.

Chen Xu was very happy to look at the big rooster walking around the yard with long naked necks.

Damn, when he was a child, he was finally avenged by a big rooster from his neighbor's house.

In early winter, a small shuttlecock became popular throughout Xianyang City.

Daqin Metropolis Daily even wrote a detailed description of the production of shuttlecocks and the rules of the game.

As the newspapers continue to spread, in more than a month, the game of winter fitness for chicken feather shuttlecock will be known to everyone in the world. It is estimated that the big roosters in the world will have a scarf this winter. But what Chen Xu didn't know was that his subordinates also made even more inhumane actions against the roosters of the Liu Shilang family...

The newspapers have begun to show their unique power. Any movement in Xianyang will lead the world like a popular benchmark. With the spread of four-wheeled carriage production methods, carriages in big cities have begun to be updated in large quantities. I even heard that some merchants in Luoyang have raised funds to learn from Xianyang to open a bus...

Although it is not particularly cold at the moment, it is winter after all, the trees are deciduous, the flowers and plants are withered, and the crops have been harvested. There are farmers who cultivate and harrow fields in the farmland. The Wei River Plain, which is lively and lively on weekdays, also seems a little lonely and lonely.

The Weihe Bridge started planning and construction at the end of June. In the past three months, it was finally completed before the arrival of winter, and the railings and bridge head bridge deck decorations were also completed. Now nearly a month has passed. After strict inspections by craftsmen from the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Works, it has been confirmed that the conditions for opening to traffic have been fully met.

On October 18th, this was the official opening time confirmed after Chen Xu's deduction. Everyone did not know where Geely was at this time, but since Qinghehou said Geely, it was naturally Geely.

The weather is sunny today, and it is a rare warm winter sun.

The whole body of the Wei River Bridge, which is hundreds of feet long, is covered with lime mortar. After drying, it lies like a white dragon lying on the shimmering Wei River, looking very eye-catching and domineering.

Millions of people in Xianyang and a large number of people within the Neishi Mansion flocked to both ends of the bridge, and the black crowds squeezed the bridge for several miles.

A total of 20,000 lieutenant and imperial guards held long spear flags and were covered with hangs to isolate the bridge from the people. The emperor kicked and stepped out from the east gate of the city under the escort of the three thousand guards and the five hundred Xuanwu guards.

Qin Shihuang was wearing a brand new black dragon robe, wearing a black sky-summer crown, and sat majestic on a newly built, lengthened and widened luxury four-wheeled emperor car driving through the city gate.

After the emperor's carriage, there were several imperial concubines and princes, including Concubine Zheng and Concubine Shu, and behind them were the carriages of hundreds of officials from the three provinces and six ministries and the princes and princes.

The bamboo, wood and stone materials that had been piled up in mountains at the bridgehead had long been cleared, revealing a spacious and flat open space with an area of ​​nearly 1,000 acres.

The imperial guards dispersed and drove the people around the open space to retreat dozens of feet.

The emperor's car stopped, and the imperial concubine and civil and military officials got off.

Chen Xu, who had been waiting at the bridge, brought a group of officials, craftsmen and officials from the Academy of Sciences and factories to greet them and bow.

"See Your Majesty!"

"I'm not giving you a gift, you all give you a gift!" Qin Shihuang happily stepped forward and helped Chen Xu up and said, "This bridge is so majestic and domineering, and it's as solid as a rock. Today is a good day for the official carriage and horses to pass by. I'm with me and all the civil and military officials in the court to go up the bridge and watch!"

"I received the order~" Chen Xu bowed again, then turned to Zhang Cang and said, "Director Zhang arranged for lion dance and firecrackers to celebrate!"

"Set off firecrackers and dance!" Zhang Cang turned around and shouted.

"Set firecrackers, dance music~"

"Set firecrackers, dance music~"

As several officials in charge of the celebration shouted loudly, two long strings of red firecrackers hanging on the railings of the bridge were lit, and amid the crackling explosion, streams of blue smoke rose into the air.

"Dongdongqiang, dongdongqiang~~" As the firecrackers exploded, dozens of cowhide drums and huge gongs lined up were beaten.

"Woo~~Woo~~~" Hundreds of tall and strong men standing at the bridge blew the horns and trombones. The low voice echoed outside the entire Xianyang East Gate. The long sound reached dozens of miles away.

Amid the horns and drum music, two colorful lions tumbling up with the strong drum music rhythm, playing lion dances in the open space, dancing toward the bridge.

"Your Majesty, please, sirs~" Chen Xu was also excited to bow to the emperor and the group of officials behind him and the princes and princes and ministers behind him.

"Haha, let's go, I can't wait!" Qin Shihuang laughed and took Chen Xu's hand and strode to the bridge, and hundreds of princes, princes, ministers, civil and military officials followed behind him. Looking at the emperor and Qinghe Hou who were walking hand in hand, everyone was in different moods.

The completion of this bridge will not only greatly strengthen the connection between Xianyang and the Central Plains, but also greatly alleviate the passage of business travel from south to north, and will make the circulation of goods more convenient.
Chapter completed!